Quotes with petty--never

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  • H. P. Lovecraft I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Lewis H. Lapham I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • David Bailey I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Leo Rosten I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Seneca I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bruce Johnston I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Robert Frost I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Epicurus I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • W. C. Fields I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • W. C. Fields I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never expect a soldier to think.
    Source: The Devil's Disciple (1901)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Alexander Hamilton I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Buck Owens I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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